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VOLUME 13 ISSUE 1
SPRING 2013
вЂњThe land is the only thing in the world worth
working forвЂ¦because itвЂ™s the only thing that lasts.вЂќ
вЂ“ Gerald OвЂ™Hara, Gone With the Wind
Congress Extends Tax Incentives for
Conservation Easements
If youвЂ™ve attended Field Day at Five Eagles Partners Farm near Rocky Point, youвЂ™ve toured
a mosaic of cleared and cultivated fields, ponds and wetlands, and hardwood forests and
swamps. You may have been fortunate to sight a bald eagle, hear the rush of a covey of quail,
or caught a glimpse of deer and other wildlife. And youвЂ™ve certainly been entertained by Labrador retrievers, meeting their marks and demonstrating their ability to retrieve on land and in
water.
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John Thomas, patriarch of the family that owns Five Eagle Partners Farm, had been managing
his property to enhance its wildlife habitat for years when his Greensboro attorney first called
the Coastal Land Trust in 1999. Mr. Thomas was committed to conservation for the long term.
After a series of meetings with the Land Trust, and after consulting with their own attorneys
and accountants, the Thomas family decided to place a conservation easement on Five Eagles
Partners Farm.
The decision to donate a conservation easement over land means giving up development
rights, which generally make up a good part of any propertyвЂ™s intrinsic value. Congress has
long recognized the wisdom in providing incentives to landowners for such вЂњgood worksвЂќ,
and has allowed donors of conservation easements to claim a federal income tax contribution
for such gifts.
This spring, thereвЂ™s some very good news for owners of land who may be considering donating a conservation easement. Congress has voted to extend enhanced tax incentives for
conservation easements: donors can apply their deduction to more of their income (generally
up to 50%) and they can use or carry over their deductions longer (up 16 years). (Please visit
www.lta.org for more information about the new law.) These new incentives are effective for
qualified conservation easement donations made by December 31, 2013, and will make conservation easement donations more attractive to modest-income land owners.
John Thomas
WeвЂ™re grateful for the vision that Mr. Thomas had when he and his family placed their land
in a conservation easement; and weвЂ™re hoping that these new incentives might inspire other
landowners to consult with their tax advisors and then give us a call!
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VOLUME 13вЂ‚ ISSUE 1
Board of Directors
Board members serve three (3) year staggered
terms. Board members are elected each year by
the membership during the annual meeting.
President
Secretary
Kevin Hicks
Ken Shanklin
Vice President
Treasurer
Edward Norvell
Sadie S. Price
Mary Jo Alcoke
George Liner
Jwantana G. Frink
Peter Rascoe, III
Wilmington, NC
Wilmington, NC
Salisbury, NC and
Ocracoke, NC
Wilmington, NC
New Bern, NC
Havelock, NC
Southport, NC
Southern Shores, NC
Paul E. Hosier
Ann Cary Simpson
Don E. Hoss
Elizabeth Powell Storie
David Huffine
George H. Wood
Jason L. Kesler
Clark Wright
Wilmington, NC
Chapel Hill, NC
Beaufort, NC
PresidentвЂ™ s Message
In Praise of Private Land Owners
As a volunteer leader for the Coastal Land Trust,
IвЂ™ve had the good fortune to visit many of the
places protected by conservation easements held
by the Coastal Land Trust. This spring alone, my
family and I participated in the Field Day at Five
Eagle Partners Farm in Pender County, owned
by the John Thomas family, and we have visited Jubilee Farms near Edenton, owned by the
Simon Rich family. Both owners have a remarkable sense of love for the land and stewardship,
which shines through in the thoughtful way
these properties are managed and cared for.
Private land conservation like this is worth recognizing, rewarding and, yes, incentivizing. So
itвЂ™s good for all of us who enjoy being outdoors
that landowners who voluntarily relinquish development rights are able, through our nationвЂ™s
tax laws, to recoup some of that lost value.
ItвЂ™s also a refreshing reminder of the important
role of local land trusts вЂ“ working with private
landowners in communities all over the nation вЂ“ who have accepted the responsibility of
monitoring these conservation lands in perpetuity so that their natural values will be saved for
the next generation.
Thank you for your support!
Manteo, NC
Wilmington, NC
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Wilmington, NC
New Bern, NC
Staff
Main Office
Central Office
Janice L. Allen
131 Racine Dr., Suite 202
Wilmington, NC 28403
(910) 790-4524
(910) 790-0392 Fax
Camilla M. Herlevich
Executive Director
ext. 206
[email protected]
John Napiecek
Business Manager
ext. 204
[email protected]
Deputy Director
3301-G Trent Road
New Bern, NC 28562
(252) 634-1927 Phone
(252) 633-4179 Fax
[email protected]
Northeast Office
Lee L. Leidy
Northeast Region Director
Attorney at Law
1108 W. Main Street
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
(252) 335-9495
[email protected]
Jesica C. Blake
Director of Stewardship
ext. 203
[email protected]
Jennifer Avesing
Stewardship Biologist
Ext. 207
[email protected]
DirectorвЂ™ s Message
Those Laws Really Do Matter!
With everything else that goes on in Raleigh and
Washington, most folks wouldnвЂ™t think that legislation in the General Assembly and in Congress
has much impact on nature, wildlife and conservation. But what happens in Washington and
Raleigh frequently does end up affecting conservation. One example is the expanded federal tax
incentives for conservation easement donations
described in the cover story, which will be in effect through the end of 2013. Those changes are
expected to increase the pace of conservation by
about a third this year over last year!
An example going in the opposite direction is
the downward trend of appropriations for the
stateвЂ™s Clean Water Management Trust Fund.
From a peak of $100 million, down to $50
million, it was reduced last year to under $11
million вЂ“ with this yearвЂ™s appropriation still to be
decided. This fund has been the primary source
of grants used by the Coastal Land Trust to purchase land and conservation easements during
the last decade. Among the projects funded have
been Bird Island, SpringerвЂ™s Point and the Brunswick Nature Park. Reduced levels for this fund
are expected to decrease the pace of conservation in North Carolina.
Clearly, the big picture in Raleigh and Washington will make a difference in the Coastal Land
TrustвЂ™s ability to take advantage of conservation
opportunities here at the coast. WeвЂ™re hopeful
that strong, bipartisan public support for conservation will translate into decisions in our capitals
that will move conservation forward. And weвЂ™re
glad to be among those who speak up for nature!
Vann Pearsall
Director of Development
Ext. 210
[email protected]
Beth W. Steelman
Development Associate /
Volunteer Coordinator
Ext. 200
[email protected]
Julia Wessell
Development Assistant
Ext. 209
[email protected]
NC Coastal Land Trust
Statistics
Acres Protected. . . . . . . . . 49,934 Acres
Household Memberships . . . . . . . 1552
website
www.coastallandtrust.org
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Linprint Company, Wilmington, NC
NC Coastal Land Trust
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People
in the
News
NCCLT Landowner Louis Bacon Honored for
Conservation Achievements
Congratulations to Louis Bacon on being the
recipient of the Audubon Medal, given in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of
conservation and environmental protection.
вЂњWe are pleased to be able to award the Audubon Medal to Louis Bacon in recognition of
his significant and diverse efforts to preserve
and protect key natural ecosystemsвЂќ said Holt
Thrasher, Chairman of the Board of National
Audubon in a press release from the Audubon
Society.
Mr. Bacon is a well-known environmentalist who has partnered with many conservation
groups across the country. He has worked with
the Coastal Land Trust for many years, first in
protecting property a decade ago at SpringerвЂ™s
Point Preserve, in Ocracoke and now with Orton
Plantation where he has a direct ancestral linkage. Mr. BaconвЂ™s stewardship and recent efforts
to protect all 8,000+ Orton Plantation acres in
Brunswick County includes improving water,
forests and threatened habitats. Conservation
and preservation efforts are underway at Orton
Plantation to rehabilitate rice fields and longleaf pine forests, providing a natural habitat for
Louis Bacon
wildlife such as the endangered red-cockaded
woodpeckers.
For more information on Louis BaconвЂ™s accomplishments in Eastern North Carolina and
beyond, visit www.moorecharitable.org.
VOLUME 13вЂ‚ ISSUE 1
Land Acquisitions
Conservation Easement Protects Wildlife at Orton
A recently completed conservation easement that
protects more than 2 ВЅ miles of critical habitat
along Allen Creek at Orton Plantation is one
of the most extensive stretches of creek front
the Coastal Land Trust has ever received in one
transaction. All the creeks and ponds at Orton,
including Allen Creek, are very significant from a
conservation standpoint.
The 256-acre tract, protected from any future
development, follows the run of Allen Creek,
with streamside buffer along both sides. The
conservation easement will protect fish and wildlife, and will protect water quality and wetlands.
The area along Allen Creek is heavily used by
wildlife and is home to cypress, sweetbay, red
maple, black gum, tupelo gum and a variety of
oak, hickory and pines.
вЂњThe protection of our fishery, wildlife, forests,
water quality and wetlands that this easement at
Allen Creek guarantees is part of a larger conservation plan that we are currently undertaking at
Orton Plantation,вЂќ said Dillon Epp, Orton PlantationвЂ™s Property Manager. вЂњWe are excited to work
with the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust to ensure that this beautiful piece of land is preserved
and protected for generations to come.вЂќ
The conservation easement was part of an agreement between the US Army Corps of Engineers
and Orton Plantation Holdings LLC in which
the Corps issued a permit for the restoration of
OrtonвЂ™s historic rice fields along the Cape Fear
River, and was given to the Coastal Land Trust at
no cost.
Allen Creek at
Orton
Coastal Land Trust Preserves Old-Growth Forest
A beautiful tract of valuable hardwood forest in
the Albemarle/Chowan watershed has been purchased for conservation by the North Carolina
Coastal Land Trust. The property twists and turns
along over one and a half miles of the Meherrin
River and includes a network of its tributaries
in Northampton County. The protection of this
property is the first project for the Coastal Land
Trust in this northern coastal county.
The protection of forests along the Meherrin also
enhances water quality in the Albemarle/Chowan watershed, one of the most productive in the
nation and a place where the traditions and heritage of waterways and forestry come together.
The Meherrin connects to several thousand acres
of conserved swamp forest along the main stem
of the Chowan River, among the largest contiguous blocks of cypress swamp habitat in North
Carolina.
This project is the first step of conservation collaboration with conservationists in Virginia to
protect land that is part of the same watershed.
And, as it turned out, the tract the Coastal Land
Trust protected included a bit of land across the
state line in Virginia вЂ“ a first for the Land Trust.
Goodwood Virginia, LLC and Conservation
Forestry, LLC are conservation-oriented timber
investment firms based in Exeter, New Hampshire. Kent Gilges, the managing member of
Goodwood Virginia, LLC and Conservation
Forestry, LLC, said, вЂњThe permanent protection of
this stretch of the Meherrin River and bottomland
forest is a great complement to our business
strategy to promote and practice conservation
and sustainable forestry. North Carolina Coastal
Land Trust has done a wonderful job in protecting this parcel during a very difficult economic
period. This project is a model for partnerships
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Old Growth Fores
between for-profit companies with an вЂ�impactвЂ™
mission and conservation groups. North Carolina
Coastal Land Trust may have helped put together
here the conservation approach of the future.вЂќ
Partnership Protects Lands Near Military Bases
A strategically located conservation property
at Lukens Island has been protected by North
Carolina Coastal Land Trust. This project was
completed as a result of a partnership between
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, the State of
North Carolina, the Marine Corps and the Navy,
in which lands with conservation value located
near military bases are protected from incompatible development.
The Marine CorpsвЂ™ ability to keep flight paths
clear around their Main Base in Havelock along
with their Auxiliary Outlying Landing Field at
Bogue and the Piney Island Bombing Range free
of residential development is greatly aided by
these conservation projects. Since 2006, the Land
Trust has completed 15 such вЂњdualвЂќ military/conservation projects, protecting more than 7,500
acres of valuable wildlife habitat and preserving
water quality while helping our local military
bases.
The 678-acre property features pine and hardwood forests, sloping down to estuarine marsh
along the banks of BrownвЂ™s Creek, a relatively
pristine tidal creek in Carteret County. The Lukens Island peninsula is located across Turnagain
Bay from the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry
PointвЂ™s Piney Island Bombing Range.
Additionally, the protected land is adjacent to
the N.C. Wildlife Resources CommissionвЂ™s 1,300
acre State Game Lands property that is open to
the public and west of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
ServiceвЂ™s Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Thus, this project contributes to a growing net-
Lukens Island
on the shore of
BrownвЂ™s Creek
work of protected riparian areas along the Neuse
River and multiple tributaries within the lower
Neuse River Estuary.
Saving BrownвЂ™s Island a Top Priority
The Coastal Land Trust has acquired a key parcel
of land at BrownвЂ™s Island, which lies off Harkers
Island in Core Sound near Cape Lookout. More
than 600 acres in size, BrownвЂ™s Island is one of
the largest undeveloped coastal islands in the
state that is still in private ownership. The tract
acquired by the Coastal Land Trust is more than
74 acres.
Saving BrownвЂ™s Island from development has
been a top priority of those who care about our
coast for many, many yearsвЂ”because of its size
and the rich abundance of nature to be found
there; including live oak and longleaf forest, forested wetlands, estuarine marsh, and coastline.
BrownвЂ™s Island is a haven for beautiful shorebirds, waterfowl, and other wildlife.
The Coastal Land Trust loves to protect islands.
Chances are, if thereвЂ™s island habitat to be saved,
the Coastal Land Trust is involved in trying to
save it. The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust owns
and manages SpringerвЂ™s Point Nature Preserve at
Ocracoke Island, and also has been involved in
land conservation projects at Bird Island, Masonboro Island, and Lea Island, which are now
owned by the state.
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VOLUME 13вЂ‚ ISSUE 1
Alcoke & Simpson Join Land Trust Board
Merrie Jo
Alcoke
Ann Cary Simpson
New Bern
Ann is Associate Dean for
Development at UNCвЂ™s
School of Government.
She previously served
as major gifts manager
for the UNC Center for
Public Television. Prior to that, she spent 16
years working with environmental organizations including the US Fish and Wildlife
Service and The Nature Conservancy. She
has also provided professional development
training in communications and fundraising
for land trusts throughout North Carolina.
She and her husband Bland have collaborated on two books, for which she provides
the photography. Ann is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She lives in Orange County with her husband, and has a family home in Beaufort.
Merrie Jo is a NC
Superior Court Certified
Mediator. Previously,
she was NC Assistant
Attorney General,
serving as senior coastal attorney for the
NC Department of Environment and
Natural Resources. She is a member of the
N.C. General Statutes Commission and the
NC Coastal Resources Law, Planning and
Policy Center Advisory Board. She holds
undergraduate and law degrees from
UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in New Bern
with her husband Tom Wilson and their
two young daughters.
Beaufort
Reid & Linda Murchison Named
2012 Philanthropist of the Year
Reid and Linda Murchison were recognized
as outstanding philanthropists by the Cape
Fear Region Chapter of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals at the chapterвЂ™s
annual Awards Breakfast held in November.
Reid and Linda are well-known throughout
the community for their expert guidance
and example of how to expend time, talent and treasure to charity. Together, the
couple has made extraordinary financial
contributions to local charities such the
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, Cape
Fear Habitat for Humanity, Good Friends of
Wilmington, the Lower Cape Fear Hospice &
LifeCare Center, Good Shepherd Center, and
many more.
addition to leading reforms of the Board
itself, Linda with her husband Reid have
made numerous contributions to the Coastal
Land Trust. In addition to financial support,
they have hosted neighborhood fund-raising
parties, and have donated a much-needed
vehicle, which is being used by our land
management staff.
Linda is the current Chair of the Board of
Trustees of the Wyoming Chapter of The
Nature Conservancy, a former steering
committee member of Friendship Bridge
(micro-credit/lending to women in Guatemala), chaplain at the local hospital and a
social worker at Hospice.
Not only have Reid and Linda made financial contributions to local organizations, they
are also actively involved in each of these
organizations. Reid is a founder and first
president of Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity
and has served on at least 10 boards, chairing five. Linda is founder of Good Friends
of Wilmington and has served on at least 10
local boards, chairing seven.
Linda served on the Board of NC Coastal
Land Trust from October 2006 to September
2012, serving as President during her final
year. She adopted вЂњboard engagementвЂќ as
the signature initiative for her Presidency,
and led successful efforts in this arena. In
Reid and Linda Murchison
SpringerвЂ™s Point Marsh Grass Planting Day for the Coastal Land
TrustвЂ™s Living Shoreline Project at SpringerвЂ™s Point Preserve
(volunteers needed)
May 11
SpringerвЂ™s Point PreserveвЂ™s 10th Birthday Celebration at SpringerвЂ™s
Point Preserve, 10 a.m.
June 29
Sage Salon & Spa Anniversary Benefit for the Coastal Land Trust
Sept. 28Coastal Land Trust Annual Celebration and Lawn Party
Oct. 19
Family Fun Day at Brunswick Nature Park
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Julia Wessell, returning
to Wilmington after
five years working in
political fundraising in
Washington, DC, joined
the Coastal Land Trust
in 2013, to help facilitate
the Land TrustвЂ™s fundJulia Wessell
raising and outreach
Development Assistant
activities. A 2007 graduate
of UNC Chapel Hill, Julia grew up in
Wrightsville Beach where she spent the
majority of her summers exploring Banks
Channel and Masonboro Island with her
family and friends. Julia still enjoys being
on the water by boat or paddle board and
when on land especially enjoys live music at
Greenfield Lake Amphitheater and Carolina
basketball games.
Outstanding
Interns Help
Lighten the Load
Julia Flagler
Julia Flagler joined the
Land Trust at the end of
2012 as the Development
Intern. Prior to working
with NCCLT, Julia took
time off of from school
to volunteer in Honduras at an orphanage
for HIV positive children. Although taking
time off of school has been a great experience for her, she looks forward to returning
to UNC Chapel Hill in the fall to finish her
undergraduate degree. Born and raised in
Wilmington, Julia loves to spend time soaking up the sun at Wrightsville Beach and
roaming the streets of Historic downtown.
When she gets a chance, Julia loves to experience the crisp mountain air in Boone, NC,
and exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway. She
also has a passion for art, particularly working with clay, and music festivals.
Zack Gibble
Save the Date!
May 10
Newest Staff
Member Returns
to H er R oots
Zachary Gibble joined
the Stewardship staff this
past winter as our spring
semester intern, and
is currently in his last
semester as a masterвЂ™s
student at UNC-Wilmington. He is pursuing his masters in environmental studies
and after graduating he hopes to start a
career in the environmental non-profit field.
Zach is assisting the Stewardship staff with
monitoring conservation easements, painting boundary lines, and administrative tasks.
Zach is native to the Wilmington area.
He grew up in Holden Beach and enjoys
spending his free time surfing.
VOLUME 13вЂ‚ ISSUE 1
Gardening Therapy
With an idea as the seed, and organic soil and
compost from a lifetime of experience a yet unseen plant will spring up, flower and bear fruit.
It will be a new non-profit organization to feed
both gardeners and consumers.
Retired Navy Veteran Lovay Wallace-Singleton
has been cultivating the Veterans Employment
Base Camp and Organic Garden for the past two
years. In addition to her service career she spent
summers in Mississippi working on her uncleвЂ™s
farm.
вЂњI am disabled from severe carpal tunnel and
had the release surgery in 2010,вЂќ Wallace-Singleton said. вЂњI was in a painful rehab and the
counselor suggested I do something I love with
my hands. I said I love to garden, do you know
of any place that has vocational rehab for veterans who like to garden?вЂќ He said вЂњno.вЂќ
Wallace-Singleton responded by creating gardening therapy. She volunteered in every public
garden she could find in the New Bern area. She
started with the Monarch Ability Garden, then
the Tryon Palace gardens and on to the local
for
Veterans
branch of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern
North Carolina and the Agricultural Extension
office.
After learning the Eastern North Carolina soil
and planting possibilities, Wallace-Singleton went
indoors to grow a program to service disabled
and homeless veterans. It will have gardens
in New Bern and Havelock. The organic, heirloom and specialty vegetables will be sold at
area farmersвЂ™ markets and through the national
grower to consumer program, Community Supported Agriculture, which she plans to establish
in North Carolina.
вЂњWe are partnering with employment security,
homeless shelters, the local VA and the VA in
Durham, pulling veterans from them all,вЂќ Wallace-Singleton effused. вЂњNow IвЂ™m speaking with
commissioners, aldermen, parks and recreation
departments. ItвЂ™s like IвЂ™m eating an elephant in
the dark and if I knew how big it is IвЂ™d be overwhelmed so I just keep going on.вЂќ
The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust has
stepped up to provide fiscal sponsorship, which
Lovay Wallace-Singleton
will allow the Veterans Employment Base Camp
And Organic Garden to apply for grants while
its non-profit status is finalized. The project fits
into NCCLTвЂ™s farmland conservation and military
partnership efforts.
Wallace-Singleton plans to start planting in 2014.
She welcomes volunteers to help realize her program for homeless and disabled vets. For more
information and to volunteer, go to the website.
http://www.veteransorganicgarden.com/
вЂ“ Roberta Penn, volunteer for the Coastal Land Trust
Awesome Volunteer Helps
Monitor Miles of Riverfront
monitoring approximately eight miles of wetlands along the river.
Ben said that some folks from Massachusetts
moved down to Oriental near him, and he took
them out by boat up the Neuse River where our
conservation lands are. вЂњYou wonвЂ™t see anything
here that the Indians havenвЂ™t seen,вЂќ he said. He
loves how wild it all is along this section of the
Neuse.
For over ten years, Ben Bowditch has been an
вЂњawesome!вЂќ volunteer and land steward for the
Coastal Land Trust. His work includes monitoring Coastal Land Trust conservation easements
and preserves along the Neuse River and helping
to maintain CLT boundary lines on local conservation easements.
Ben firstвЂ™s encounter with the Coastal Land Trust
was through the Land TrustвЂ™s Deputy Director
Janice Allen. Janice took Ben out to Bellair Plantation (Craven County) so that he could get an
idea of what the Land Trust was doing regarding
land conservation. He offered to help monitor
the conservation easement at Bellair, and has
monitored the 255-acre old historic plantation
property ever since.
Now Ben has added stewarding properties along
the Neuse River from 220 acres of property at
our Neuse River Greens Thoroughfare Island
conservation easement to 1100 acres of property
along the river to the north. Each winter, he is
Nature Trivia
He was born in Boston, MA and then spent
some time growing up in Illinois, eventually
returning to Boston for college. His grandmother
taught him to fly fish when he was eight years
old and his love of the outdoors stemmed from
these visits to his grandparentвЂ™s cabin in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada. He has
continued his love of fishing, a passion he has
passed on to his two sons; and he loves being
out on the water in Eastern North Carolina.
He and his wife, Jean, live in Oriental during the
winter. They move up to Maine in the summer
where they have a cabin on a lake. Ben is retired
from Vanguard Investment Group as Senior Vice
President. BenвЂ™s first involvement in land conservation was working on a project with the New
England Forestry Foundation and the Pingree
Forest Partnership, which resulted in protecting
750,000 acres of forested land, essentially much
of the land around his cabin.
If you are interested in becoming a stewardship
volunteer, contact Jesica Blake, Director of Stewardship at [email protected]
Answer: B. It can take red-cockaded woodpeckers up to 3 years to drill
their cavities. This is why it is so important to them to have some old
(greater than 80 years old) trees, preferably longleaf pine which often
gets red heart disease after 80 years old; and this softens the heartwood for the woodpeckers!
Department of the Navy
and the Marine Corps
Air Station Joint Recipients
of Conservation Award
Carmen Lombardo, the natural resources manager at Cherry Point, and Carla Roth, a supervisory
real estate contracting officer for the Navy, are
co-winners of the 2013 North Carolina Land Trust
Government Conservation Partner of the Year
Award.
This annual award recognizes the individual or
agency that has shown a sustained and outstanding commitment to partnering with land trusts for
conservation initiatives, or has actively supported
public policies with a positive influence on land
and water preservation in North Carolina.
Lombardo representing the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point and Roth representing
the Department of the Navy, were nominated
by the Coastal Land Trust for their substantial
contributions to land conservation in the North
Carolina Coastal Plain.
Together with their colleagues, Lombardo and
Roth are responsible for carrying out long-term
partnerships with the Coastal Land Trust specifically to conserve lands with military and
conservation significance in and around Cherry
Point and the outlying landing fields in Carteret
County. Along with the Coastal Land Trust, they
have promoted an aggressive and successful land
conservation effort with 15 specific projects targeted for conservation.
The partnership has successfully acquired key
tracts of land that help buffer one of our military bases from encroachment and ensure safe
flight patterns. At the same time, it has enhanced
local water quality, conserved valuable wildlife
resources and provided for public access and
recreation.
Photo: Carmen Lombardo and Carla Roth, center,
are recognized as co-winners of the 2013 North
Carolina Land Trust Government Conservation
Partner of the Year Award. With them are Camilla
Herlevich, left, Executive Director of the Coastal Land
Trust and Janice Allen, Deputy Director.
5
131 Racine Drive, Suite 202
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
Kayak Winners!
Kitty Hawk Surf Company
Holds Fund Raiser for the
Land Trust
Julie Boone Cummins held the
winning raffle ticket and received a
sleek, sporty Tetra kayak as an early
Christmas present. вЂњThanks again
very much Coastal Land Trust and
Kitty Hawk Sports!вЂќ wrote Julie. We
are really excited to use it [kayak],
and the guys at Kitty Hawk Surf
Company upfitted it for fishing
Kneeling in front of the kayak,
and gave us good advice on our
displayed by Kitty Hawk Surf
Company employees, is Julie,
paddle selection. Our family has
center, her son Boone and
already started talking about
daughter Elly Blue.
summer vacation and bringing it
back to the coast, although IвЂ™m sure it will get plenty of use
here in Chatham County as well.вЂќ
The Coastal Land Trust extends a huge thanks to John Harris and
all the folks at Kitty Hawk Surf Co. and Kitty Hawk Kites for hosting
the great raffle and for all that they do for us throughout the year!
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Nature Trivia
The federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker is the only North American woodpecker to:
A. Have a diet that consists mainly of insects such
as beetles, ants, roaches and caterpillars.
B. Nest and roost in cavities in living pine trees
(takes the birds between 6 months to 3 years
to drill a cavity).
C. Live in the southern states from Virginia to
Texas.
D. Have bristle-like feathers over their nostrils to
keep wood particles from being inhaled.
Answer on page 5.
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